Adelphi University

Gender-based violence (GBV) remains one of the most pervasive human rights and public health challenges worldwide, with disproportionate impacts on women and girls in conflict-affected and fragile states. Afghanistan represents one of the most restrictive environments for women's rights, where structural, cultural, and political barriers severely limit the implementation and evaluation of GBV-prevention programs. This scoping review aims to identify and critically appraise GBV prevention and response interventions implemented in Afghanistan and assess their contribution to advancing gender and health equity. Following PRISMA-ScR guidelines and the PICOS framework, nine databases were systematically searched for studies published between 2010 and November 2025. Studies were included if they evaluated or described an intervention addressing GBV, intimate partner violence, or violence against Afghan women and girls. Data were charted by study design, target population, intervention type, theoretical foundation, and outcomes. Seven studies met inclusion criteria, highlighting the limited evidence base in Afghanistan. Interventions included community development programs, school-based peace education, family strengthening initiatives, psychosocial counselling, and women's economic empowerment. Reported outcomes showed improvements in gender-equitable attitudes, family relationships, and psychosocial wellbeing; however, cultural constraints and insecurity limited long-term impact. Despite sparse evidence, existing interventions suggest that context-sensitive, community-driven, and multi-sectoral approaches can promote gender equity and resilience. Expanding locally led GBV-prevention programs integrated into health and social systems can assist in reducing violence and achieving equitable health outcomes for Afghan women and families.

Abstract Background Despite substantial investment in mental health system development, equitable access to services remains uneven globally and within high income contexts. In Qatar, rapid health sector modernization has expanded service capacity and tele mental health care (TMHC), yet sociocultural stigma, institutional processes, and structural determinants may continue to shape disparities in access. Objective This study examines mental health professionals’ perceptions of sociocultural, structural, and institutional barriers to care in Qatar and explores the equity implications of TMHC implementation. Methods A qualitative descriptive design was employed. Twenty-eight licensed mental health professionals representing psychiatry, psychology, social work, nursing, and medicine were recruited through purposive and snowball sampling. Semi structured interviews were conducted with 28 mental health providers. Data were analyzed using Braun and Clarke’s reflexive thematic analysis within a structural health equity framework informed by stigma theory and intersectionality. Results Stigma operated across structural, institutional, interpersonal, and psychological domains influencing help seeking. Participants identified workforce shortages, centralized service organization, linguistic hierarchies, insurance limitations, and documentation fears as structural determinants shaping unequal access. Institutional processes, including confidentiality concerns and referral bottlenecks, were perceived to increase risk in seeking care. Interpersonal dynamics, particularly family mediated decision making and reputational concerns, situated help seeking within kinship and community networks, while internalized stigma contributed to delayed engagement. TMHC was viewed as potentially reducing visibility related stigma and geographic barriers; however, concerns were raised regarding digital literacy, privacy, infrastructure capacity, and the risk that digital expansion could reproduce socioeconomic and gender inequities. Conclusions Mental health inequities in Qatar reflect interactions between sociocultural norms, governance structures, service organization, and digital transformation. Expanding service availability alone is unlikely to ensure equitable access. Policy responses must prioritize culturally responsive stigma reduction, equitable workforce and language capacity, and integration of mental health services within community and primary care settings. In addition, digital mental health initiatives require explicit equity safeguards, including attention to digital literacy, accessibility, and accountability mechanisms. Without such measures, tele-mental health expansion risks reproducing existing social and structural disparities rather than functioning as a tool for equitable mental health system reform.

Food waste is an issue that affects human and environmental health around the planet. At colleges and universities, food waste poses a serious concern, as its impact can be compared to that of mini-cities or large corporations. Identifying an institution’s capacity to reduce and redistribute food waste is critical to decreasing its carbon footprint and maintaining sustainability. Understanding the nature of waste produced at a university’s buildings is the first step in establishing effective waste management plans; however, campus cafeterias, being the primary source of food waste, are typically the focus. Limited research emphasis has been placed on assessing food waste generated in campus dormitories. This project tests the hypothesis that food waste generated from dormitories at the main campus of Adelphi University, a private liberal arts institution in New York, is a significant component of waste. To analyze post-consumer trash disposal patterns, garbology methods were utilized. Trash collected at dormitories between 2022 and 2024 was sorted and weighed. This mixed-methods analysis included student interviews of waste perceptions. Food waste was the primary waste type generated in the halls, followed by food and beverage packaging, including containers, napkins, and utensils. In particular, food waste comprised 32% of sampled dormitory waste. Interview results integrated with these quantitative results demonstrated student perceptions of food led to food waste, such as perceived level of cooking, portion sizes, and home context. These results suggest that any efforts to improve campus sustainability through management of food waste–such as composting or anaerobic digestion–must encompass dormitories as well as cafeterias. As the world’s population continues to rise at a rapid pace, primarily in metropolitan areas, the volume of waste generated by this growth must be managed to address planetary health.

Chemotherapy-Induced Cardiotoxicity (CIC) has become a growing concern in modern oncology. While chemotherapy remains one of the most effective treatments against cancer, its potential to harm the heart often limits its use. The underlying mechanisms involve oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and inflammation, all contributing to the gradual weakening of cardiac muscle. As cancer survival improves, the burden of cardiovascular complications is more visible than ever, emphasizing the need for early recognition, prevention, and long-term management. This review draws upon published literature, recent clinical trials, and translational research to explore current understanding and future directions in CIC. Studies on anthracyclines and HER2 inhibitors were reviewed in depth, along with new data on diagnostic biomarkers, imaging techniques, and evolving therapeutic strategies. Particular attention was given to the role of pharmacogenomics, preventive interventions, and emerging therapies aimed at protecting or restoring cardiac function in patients undergoing chemotherapy. CIC can present as heart failure, arrhythmia, hypertension, myocardial ischemia, or thromboembolism. Factors such as age, obesity, cumulative drug exposure, and genetic predisposition significantly raise the risk. Recent advances have improved early detection-troponins, natriuretic peptides, and echocardiography with Global Longitudinal Strain (GLS) allow for identification before overt symptoms appear. Preventive strategies, including dose adjustments, liposomal formulations, and the cardioprotective agent dexrazoxane, have shown measurable benefits. Established cardiotoxicity can be managed with conventional heart failure medications, antihypertensives, and anticoagulants. Experimental approaches-ranging from mitochondrial stabilizers and histone deacetylase inhibitors to mesenchymal stem cell therapy-show promise in reversing cardiac injury. CIC reflects a complex interaction between cancer biology, treatment intensity, and patientspecific vulnerability. A proactive, multidisciplinary approach involving both oncologists and cardiologists is key to balancing cancer control with heart health. Lifestyle measures such as regular exercise and dietary optimization can further strengthen cardiovascular resilience. Advances in genetic testing, molecular imaging, and regenerative therapy are gradually shifting the field toward more personalized cardio-oncology care. Chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity continues to challenge clinicians striving for a cure without compromise. The future of cancer care lies in integrating precision medicine with preventive cardiology to minimize cardiac injury while maintaining therapeutic efficacy. Continued research into molecular targets, biomarkers, and cell-based therapies offers genuine hope for improving both survival and quality of life in cancer patients.

ABSTRACT This study examines how different policy issues and institutional factors influence the strength of political consensus and polarized voting in the United States (US) Congress between 1991 and 2020. Utilising the Jordan Tama important congressional votes dataset, the analysis investigates the impact of external factors, such as foreign trade, immigration, domestic policy, spending, military/security issues and presidential position, as well as internal factors, such as divided party control. Our analysis employed descriptive statistics for all variables, pairwise correlation, ordinary least squares (OLS) regression, binary logistic regression and marginal effects modelling to estimate predictors. The results indicate that immigration and domestic policy issues significantly reduce consensus and increase polarization, while spending bills foster greater bipartisan agreement. Presidential involvement and periods of divided‐party control emerge as strong predictors of polarized voting, whereas foreign trade and international finance do not significantly alter underlying partisan and consensus dynamics in both houses. The findings contribute to partisan and electoral theories by demonstrating how specific policy domains and institutional dynamics interact to shape legislative outcomes in the contemporary polarized political environment. The study highlights challenges facing efforts to restore legislative functionality and the foundational role of compromise in American democracy.

ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to help researchers who are interested in pursuing accounting history research to conduct their own research. The article recounts a journey of one researcher from a relatively traditional American doctoral program to a present focus on accounting history research. The article describes the challenges associated with working in accounting history research and provides some recommendations that may be helpful in conducting history research using archives.

<title>Abstract</title> <bold>Background:</bold> As cannabis laws liberalize across U.S. states, campus norms are shifting. However, little is known about how these changes affect Muslim American undergraduates, particularly in relation to religiosity and immigration background. <bold>Methods:</bold> A cross-sectional online survey was conducted between 2021–2022 with 183 Muslim-identifying undergraduate students. Measures included lifetime and recent cannabis use, a polysubstance co-use index, and predictors such as private and public religiosity, immigrant generation, and sociodemographic. Logistic regressions were used to estimate associations (odds ratios [ORs] and 95% confidence intervals [CIs]). Model fit was assessed, and complete-case analysis was applied. <bold>Results:</bold> Lower private religiosity was associated with higher odds of use (aOR=2.35, 95% CI:1.18–4.67), as was foreign-born status (aOR=1.92, 95% CI:1.01–3.67). Public religiosity and high school location were not significant. Polysubstance involvement was the strongest correlate (aOR=3.84, 95% CI:2.10–7.03). Users reported markedly higher alcohol, cigarette, and hookah use than abstainers (all p&lt;.001). <bold>Conclusions:</bold> Private religiosity may protect against cannabis use, while immigrant status increases vulnerability. Situated within a campus policy context that combines federal Drug-Free Schools requirements with liberal state cannabis laws, these findings highlight how Muslim undergraduates navigate overlapping moral, legal, and social sanctions. From a harm-reduction perspective, results underscore the need for faith-sensitive, non-punitive campus responses that reduce health, social, and disciplinary harms, rather than relying solely on abstinence-based or punitive approaches.

This issue is based on a conference that was held in July 2023 and that focused on new advances in the theory and measures of the Referential Process (RP). The concept of the RP was developed in the context of the Multiple Code Theory (MCT) and concerns the complex process by which people are able to connect all manner of experiences, including bodily and emotional experience, to words, in both spoken and written language. A previous issue of this journal, published in 2021, outlined the theory of the referential process, and included empirical and clinical applications. The research studies featured measures of language style based on the Discourse Attributes Analysis Program (DAAP), a computerized text analysis system that was developed by Bernard Maskit in the context of MCT. The 2023 conference covered new developments in the DAAP research program and also featured Dr. Maskit’s presentation of the new TDAAP (Time-based DAAP) which analyzes spoken language on the basis of time flow rather than word count. This new program takes a major step towards examining the role of sensory and bodily experience in the verbal communication of experience. The conference was sponsored by the Pacella Research Center of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. It included both in-person and online participants across the U.S. and in Canada, Israel, and Italy, and represented the combined efforts of researchers and clinicians. At the conclusion of the conference, the editor of this journal, Dr. Rafael Javier, invited submission of the papers presented at the meetings for a special issue of the journal. In this introduction, we will briefly outline the theory that provides the conceptual framework for our projects. The next section will provide a brief introduction to the papers that are included in this issue.

Individuals with autism who are minimally speaking often use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). Communication partner training is an integral element of AAC intervention, and caregivers are ideal communication partners for supporting their child’s language development. Asynchronous, online trainings may offer caregivers an accessible and flexible medium to learn to support their child’s AAC communication. The current study used a single-case randomized multiple-probe design to evaluate the effects of an asynchronous, online caregiver training on caregiver’s AAC strategy use in the context of shared book reading. Visual and statistical analyses were used to determine the presence and magnitude of effects. Four out of five caregivers acquired the target strategy. A functional relation was observed between the online training and caregiver strategy use in addition to individual components of the strategy (e.g., modeling). Tau-U nonoverlap calculations suggested medium to large effects of the intervention on caregiver strategy use. Asynchronous, online trainings may offer a valuable resource to caregivers of children who use AAC for communication, and caregivers may prefer the flexibility and accessibility that is associated with asynchronous trainings. Future research should work toward identifying how online programs can most effectively support widespread parent training and improve outcomes for children who require AAC.